In a few of my recent posts about the seedlings we have started for our garden, I commented that we ordered cheap, plastic pots from eBay because we couldn’t find any stores around us selling them…at least not the home improvement stores we frequent. Unfortunately, the pots took FOREVER to get here and we were […]

Since we have quite a few fruit trees around the farm, I thought I would share some photos. First, our grapevine growing in the courtyard along the wall of the barn. Last year it actually produced quite a few grapes and we even got to sample a few before the birds ate them all. They […]

We’ve been busy, to say the least. Unfortunately not everything that has kept us busy has been related to the garden, farm or our self-reliant ways…but you have to pay the bills somehow 🙂 We FINALLY finished the greenhouse this weekend. Well, we still need to build some tables and things like that in there, […]

I’m going to try to catch up on a few LONG overdue posts so here’s a start. 🙂 May 1st was a holiday here in Germany. Since S was out of town for business during the weekend, he decided to take Monday off so we would basically still have a weekend…and a very short work […]

If you’ve started to wonder whether the “room which shall not be named” won the fight against the chaos; fear not – I did in fact win out! To see what the room looked like before, check out the pictures from my previous post. Below are a few photos of the state it’s in now. […]